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What does consign mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
  2. (transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
  3. (transitive) To send to a final destination.
  4. To assign; to devote; to set apart.
  5. To stamp or impress; to affect.
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At best, the advocates of this approach consign themselves to a relevance bound by the walls of the academy.
I had made him speak, on behalf of all those he had wanted to consign to oblivion.
Screw up spectacularly just once and popular opinion will consign you to the cavalcade of history's bigger dills.
Oh, but doesn't village life automatically consign you to a cultural desert?
And all turning out in such a way, quite likely, as to consign another batch of politicians to the status of footnotes in history.
The current one has proved to be rather unwieldy in practice and I shall be glad to consign it to history.

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